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HP ProDesk 400 G2 Base Model Microtower PC
Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit)

i want to change the legacy to uefi can someone help me

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@RgbMoreFps  -- two thoughts:

 

1. your motherboard must support UEFI.  I presume that it does.

 

2. You may need a few steps:

  • download the free "Macrium Reflect" software, and make a "bootable" file (either on DVD or on an empty USB memory-stick)
  • purchase a new disk-drive
  • connect it, without disconnecting your current disk-drive
  • enter BIOS SETUP, and select UEFI
  • change the "boot order" to first boot from that DVD or that USB memory-stick
  • save/exit from BIOS SETUP
  • boot into Macrium Reflect
  • choose to "clone" from the current disk-drive onto the new disk-drive
  • restart, and change the "boot order" to boot from the new disk-drive

This may be necessary, because your motherboard, while running in UEFI mode, will not boot from your "legacy" disk-drive.

 

Or, purchase a new disk-drive, switch to UEFI mode, and install Windows onto it. Then, copy your Personal Files from "old" to "new" disk-drive.

 

 

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there a option to boot to uefi 

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@RgbMoreFps -- i want to change the legacy to uefi   ////   there a option to boot to uefi 

 

Are you saying that your computer does NOT have an option to enable UEFI ?

 

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Yes

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@RgbMoreFps -- Yes

 

Then, you need to replace the motherboard to one that does support UEFI.

 

Changing the motherboard will also require you to purchase a new license to run Windows,

because your current license is "tied" to your current motherboard -- Microsoft states that you cannot transfer the original license to a different computer.

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now my computer is die

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@RgbMoreFps -- now my computer is die

 

Is your computer less than 12 months old? If so, then contact HP Support, to open a claim against the HP Warranty, to get HP to repair/replace your computer, at HP's expense.

 

Otherwise, tell us more about the symptoms. 

Does it react at all when you press the ON/OFF button?

Do you hear any noise from the fans inside the computer?

 

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Its 8 year old computer and no display and fans loud 

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@RgbMoreFps -- 8 years old, and now "dead"

 

Sad news. Is it time for you to purchase a new computer, that runs Windows 11 ?

 

You may be able to take the disk-drive out of the older computer, and temporarily connect it as a "secondary" disk-drive in the new computer, to copy all your Personal Files.

 

 

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